American - Dancer | August 29, 1956 -
There was always dance in opera until people forgot to keep it going.
Mark Morris
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Every child dances, and then you learn not to.
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The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.
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'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
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Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
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I'm very tough.
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I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.
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As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.
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If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.
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